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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Perl] split on : but with extra challenge Post 302968911 by ejdv on Wednesday 16th of March 2016 06:42:28 AM
Old 03-16-2016
Thanks a lot.
Works like a charm.
So the lesson is to substitute the colons that are in the way and later on to substitue them back again.

---------- Post updated at 10:30 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:18 AM ----------

One additional question:

What if the number of values found within {} is variable ?

For example:

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b}";

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b:value6c}";

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b:value6c:value6d}";

my $Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b}";

For the moment I am only interested in the value of $TotalLineAttributes.
No need to retrieve the actual attributes.

---------- Post updated at 11:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:30 AM ----------

I will use this until something better comes along:

$Line =~ s/{(.*?)}/XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx/g;
 

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